

Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
The Late Night Linux Family
All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Linux Matters, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
Episodes
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Jun 9, 2023 • 20min
Linux After Dark – Episode 45
Dalton spent 3 hours having fun playing with open source DJ software Mixxx, and wonders if the rest of us have had a similar amount of fun with FOSS. Plus a great idea for a challenge, and one that’s a terrible idea.
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Jun 6, 2023 • 33min
Late Night Linux – Episode 232
The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more.
News
Check out Ask The Hosts. Episode 1 is available on Patreon.
Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap
All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
Carl George’s take
The distribution model is changing
Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak
Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”
Push – a standalone expressive instrument
Willow could be the $50 hardware piece of the DIY voice assistant puzzle
Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup
Pocket’s new features make it even easier to discover and organize content
Linux On Desktop In 2023
Kolide
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Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Linode
Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.
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Jun 4, 2023 • 17min
Linux Downtime – Episode 73
Amolith attempts to argue that avoiding ads using open source software is piracy, and that piracy in this case is good.
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May 30, 2023 • 32min
Linux Matters 4: Automatic for the people
In this episode:
Alan announces RSS is alive and well, and powering Mastodon bots
Mark finds the best mouse for desktop Linux. Possibly.
Martin is using the Stream Deck to automate desktop Linux
You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
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May 29, 2023 • 32min
Late Night Linux – Episode 231
What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem.
Tailscale
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Linode
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May 26, 2023 • 33min
Linux After Dark – Episode 44
We try to imagine what the future holds for our young kids, and realise how much the tech world has changed since we were young. Plus building a dirt cheap NAS, and more.
ServerMania
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HelloFresh
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Tailscale
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May 22, 2023 • 33min
Late Night Linux – Episode 230
Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
gping
Chiaki
image stabilised Apollo 15
Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam
The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Nosey Parker
Joe’s Mastodon thread
Obtainium
GCompris
Feedback
Configure Firefox to reject cookie banners automatically
Bavarder: Chit-chat with an AI
TrueNAS from iXsystems
To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl
HelloFresh
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Linode
Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.
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May 21, 2023 • 24min
Linux Downtime – Episode 72
Part 2 of our chat with Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great. This time we talk about Mastodon and the Fediverse, central bank digital currencies, cashless societies, the hype around AI, corporate surveillance, and more.
Check out part 1 here
Molly’s Mastodon
ServerMania
ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated, cloud, colocation, and IP Transit services, and free initial consultations. Go to servermania.com/ldt and use the promo code linuxdowntime to get 15% off dedicated servers – recurring for life.
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May 16, 2023 • 29min
Linux Matters 3: Soaking up the Cider
In this episode:
Martin switches to Apple Music on Desktop Linux
Alan starts Sideloading Homebrew on Steam Deck
Mark tries to find note-taking nirvana
You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
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The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Web Developer job
See linuxmatters.sh/catalyst for details.
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May 16, 2023 • 33min
Late Night Linux – Episode 229
Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and more.
News
Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Fedora Program Manager layed off
(what that role was)
Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation
A new onboarding experience on Mastodon
Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking
Asus ROG Ally review: it’s time to stop pretending Windows is the answer
Nintendo, ticked by Zelda leaks, does a DMCA run on Switch emulation tools
Plasma 6: “Better defaults”
Plasma 6 Sprint 2023
Kolide
Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux
Tailscale
Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.
Linode
Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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